and first...to all pre-teen d*ck shakers out there...take you crap somewhere else. If you wnt to cal each other names go somewhere else or better yet meet up in an alley and get it done like grownups (which none of you act like).

now:

I see more than a couple fans here who seem to think that Fav will be our starting center this year. I am more than puzzled by this and was wondering what reasoning they have for this.

I don,t think we will know until we see him with the big boys. Maybe by default

I bet there will be no starting "center". The C's (yes Doc) called Bass a starting center. After the dust settles in December, Oly and Sully wiil likely be the 2 guys called PF and C most often. Spreading the floor to allow Rondo's or Jeff's drives may be the main focus on half-court offense. Jeff could move to 2 guard with Bass providing one more perimeter shooter. On defense the "plan" may be to run a second guy at the other center when he has the ball in the paint. I am looking forward to seeing it.

I bet there will be no starting "center". The C's (yes Doc) called Bass a starting center. After the dust settles in December, Oly and Sully wiil likely be the 2 guys called PF and C most often. Spreading the floor to allow Rondo's or Jeff's drives may be the main focus on half-court offense. Jeff could move to 2 guard with Bass providing one more perimeter shooter. On defense the "plan" may be to run a second guy at the other center when he has the ball in the paint. I am looking forward to seeing it.

Not sure about this ... it would have to be a pretty slow 2 guard, like Joe Johnson.

I definitely like all of our small-ball line-ups tho with Jeff at the 4

Ever since he had that monster game last season expectations started to grow but we saw nothing more from him. Considering this is a throw away season by many peoples estimation, anything is possible but he hasnt shown much improvement to matter from what ive read and the little ive seen

and first...to all pre-teen d*ck shakers out there...take you crap somewhere else. If you wnt to cal each other names go somewhere else or better yet meet up in an alley and get it done like grownups (which none of you act like).

now:

I see more than a couple fans here who seem to think that Fav will be our starting center this year. I am more than puzzled by this and was wondering what reasoning they have for this.

Because right now Favis the only "true center" on the roster. By the time the season starts we may have a different center, but right now there is nobody else.

Melo is not NBA ready. No way, No how. He needs at least another couple years of development just to avoid embarrassment. Colton Iverson may replace him on the roster next year.

I think it highly unlikely that Danny sacrafice and risk Oly at center, other than situationally. As demonstrated in Summer League, Oly is very effective at PF.

Hump may also play some Center, but at 6'9", he may be used just to take some bruises. He will get annialated underneath by virtually every center in the league.

Like Hump, Sully is only 6'9" and has limited vertical. He has never played center even in college. He would also get physically annialated (worse than Hump) underneath by every center in the league.

So there is no reason to force fit a PF into the center position, when you have a true center body on the roster, and you are in a development rebuid year. It was a position of weakness when we tried that with Garnett, who is orders of magnitude better and more exprienced than Sully, Oly or Hump.

that's fine by me.....I'm never gonna say I want my team to tank, but if they lose enough to get into the lottery and have enough of a combination of ping pong balls and luck to get wiggins or jabari parker then good for us

I just want to see some basketball....Oct can't get here fast enough for me